Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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